Joosten Quotes

#1. Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking, especially at a time like this

Don DeLillo

#2. Happiness is inside you, not with another person

John Lennon

#3. Cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as a nodule, tumor or cell someplace, or in my fears and anxieties.

Kathryn Joosten

#4. It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?

Knut Hamsun

#5. I am the only 'celebrity' to be public about my lung cancer.

Kathryn Joosten

#6. We are all connected directly or indirectly.
We are all related closely or distantly.
We are all the offspring of the same family.
Better an individual and you better society.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. A beautiful mind will give you a beautiful life and a mind conquered by love will give you everything.

Bram Joosten

#8. Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.

Bertrand Russell

#9. Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#10. I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.

Wendy Liebman

#11. I knew Kathy Joosten; we worked together on a very short-lived series called 'Thanks' for CBS.

Kirsten Nelson

#12. I will always hold on to my heart.
Hold on to that feeling...
Of happiness, peace and freedom.
LOVE.

Bram Joosten

#13. Unlike novels with a hero or two heroines, in 'One Amazing Thing,' all the characters tell stories they've never told anyone before, so all the voices become equally important.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#14. My hope is that God will have changed people's lives through me for the better.

Joyce Meyer

#15. It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.

Baruch Spinoza

#16. Some people in Hollywood think of me as a model for dramatic midlife transitions: suburban housewife to Emmy-winning actress. But I never plotted a master plan for following my dreams.

Kathryn Joosten

#17. Sometimes I just can't face going through with breakfast.

John Berendt

#18. The water-dragon's name was Lady Kiyomizu, although much to Junichiro's horror she breezily told Laurence to call her Kiyo, and not to stand on formality. "You have no manners anyway," she said, "and there is no sense your trying to put out sakura blossoms, when you are a bamboo.

Naomi Novik

#19. Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, they all made the money.
writers?
writers starved.
writers suicided.
writers went mad.

Charles Bukowski

#20. I've noticed that women often have a desire to change men, even the ones they love."
"I've noticed that, too." Dougal frowned. "Which is odd, when you think about it. Because if you didn't
like the way a man is, why would you attach yourself to him to begin with?

Karen Hawkins

#21. Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world.

Franz Marc